Christianwholeness.com

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Christianwholeness.com
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Welcome whether you be a

• Consumer / Client Patient
• Community people helpers
• Counsellors (NGO / Church based)
• Clinicians (Mental health workers)

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Purpose Why this presentation

• To show what has been happening over the last 10
  yrs, in Brisbane in the context of
• spirituality (in the Christian tradition)
• and helping others move
• from negative ( the ultimate being suicide) to
  positive (wholeness) .thus the term
• Christian wholeness

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..Christian Wholeness 2 dimensions of change
God centredness
Self centredness
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Purpose What can I go away with?

• Knowing that there is a practical framework
  available for integrating Christian spirituality
  and mainline mental health, for the -
• Consumer / Client Patient
• Community people helpers
• Counsellors (NGO / Church based)
• Clinicians (Mental health workers)

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Overview
COUNSELLOR
COUNSELLEE
COUNSELLING
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COUNSELLEE
Who are the counsellees who can be helped by a
Christian wholeness approach?
COUNSELLEE
COUNSELLOR
COUNSELLING
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Counsellees Problems helped by a Christian
wholeness approach

• Personality
• Mood
• OCD
• PTSD Stress related problems
• Psychoses Biological disorders
• Anger
• Suicidality
• Social (Family, Peers, Work / School)

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Who can this framework of Christian wholeness
help?

• CWCC South Side 1994- 2002
• New clients / Patients 2,800
• Appointments 21,800

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Who can this framework of Christian wholeness
help?

• CWCC South Side 1994- 2002

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Who can this framework of Christian wholeness
help?

• CWCC South Side 1994- 2002

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Who can this framework of Christian wholeness
help?

• CWCC South Side 1994- 2002

Baptist
Other Christian
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COUNSELLOR
Who are the counsellors who have used a
Christian wholeness approach ?
COUNSELLOR
COUNSELLEE
COUNSELLING
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Counsellors using a Christian wholeness approach

• On a Spiritual Journey (in the Christian
  tradition)
• Individually
• Group eg
• Church based recovery groups
• Christian Wholeness Counselling Centres

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Counsellors using a Christian wholeness
approach can be-

• Consumer / Client Patient
• Community people helpers
• Counsellors (NGO / Church based)
• Clinicians (Mental health workers)

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Christian wholeness Counsellors A Pyramid of
networks
GOD
Clinician
Consumer
Community
Counsellor
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The common framework across the pyramid

• a practical framework for understanding
  (assessing) and helping (therapy)
• for integrating Christian spirituality and
  mainline mental health
• Based on the picture of circles

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Consumer / Client Patient
outer
inner
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Community people helpers
Spirit
Soul / Personality
Mind
Body
Social
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Counsellors (NGO / Church based)
Sectors (based on Mental state examination
headings)
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Clinicians (Mental health workers)

• Complex interactions
• Time base
• Within the person
• Linking problems with cause, diagnosis and
  management

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Counsellors

• Christian wholeness counselling centres
• - Mt Gravatt
• -Carseldine

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COUNSELLING
What is distinct about the Christian wholeness
approach ?
COUNSELLOR
COUNSELLEE
COUNSELLING
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Counselling using a Christian wholeness approach

• On a Spiritual Journey
• Consent
• Relaxed
• Invitational Posture
• Screening Questions
• Reality
• Relevance
• Relationship

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Counselling Christian wholeness

• Assessment integration
• Connection
• TRIALOGUE
• Understanding
• Spirit
• Spirit --------Mind ------Body interaction

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Counselling Christian wholeness

• Response / Therapy
• Spiritual (Christian tradition)
• Prayer
• Scripture
• Sanctification (Theology of change)

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Counselling Christian wholeness

• Response / Therapy
• Spiritually Integrated-
• Psychodynamic (eg transference)
• Cognitive (eg self concept)
• Behavioural
• Experiential (eg imagery)
• Biological (eg Christian approaches to the role
  of the physical in causation healing)

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Counselling Christian wholeness

• Engage help
• Use of pyramid
• In addition to secular resources

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How can I find out more?

• Christianwholeness.com (soon!)
• Productions arm
• Publications
• Cds, books, tip sheets
• Workshops
• Conferences

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Take home message

• There is a practical framework available for
  integrating Christian spirituality and mainline
  mental health for the -
• Consumer / Client Patient
• Community people helpers
• Counsellors (NGO / Church based)
• Clinicians (Mental health workers)